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By period

Eight eras, from antiquity to the present, each read from the year on the record.

All 291 periods

by century, as each record dates its object

Sixth century BC1

Late Archaic, 530-480 BC1

Sixteenth century36

Age of Discovery, early sixteenth century1Elizabethan England, sixteenth century1English, Elizabethan, 16th century1English, late sixteenth century1English, Tudor, sixteenth century1Flemish, early sixteenth century1German and Lorraine, early sixteenth century3German, early 16th century (the reign of Emperor Maximilian I, 1493-1519)1German, early sixteenth century (Northern Renaissance)2German, early sixteenth century (Northern Renaissance); this impression Dutch, early seventeenth century1German, Nuremberg, mid-sixteenth century1German, sixteenth century1Italian Renaissance, Cremona, sixteenth century1Italian Renaissance, late sixteenth century, Grand Duchy of Tuscany1Italian Renaissance, Urbino, 1520s1Italian, Baroque, about 16001Italian, early sixteenth century1Italian, High Renaissance, early sixteenth century1Italian, late sixteenth century1Italian, Milan, second quarter of the sixteenth century1Italian, Rome, sixteenth century1Italian, Venetian Renaissance, sixteenth century1Mexica (Aztec), Late Postclassic, early sixteenth century1Netherlandish, sixteenth century2Northern European, late sixteenth century1Northern European, Reformation, sixteenth century1Northern Mannerist, Habsburg court, 16th century1Ottoman Turkish, 16th century1Ottoman, early sixteenth century, Age of Discovery1Portuguese, early sixteenth century1Renaissance and Mannerist Europe, mid-sixteenth century, made at the French royal court1Safavid Iran, second half of the sixteenth century1Safavid Iran, sixteenth century1Safavid Iran, Tabriz, ca. 1522-15351Spanish Renaissance, early sixteenth century1West African, sixteenth to nineteenth century1

Nineteenth century42

American Federal / early Republic, New York, circa 1810-18201American, Civil War era, nineteenth century1American, Federal period, War of 18121American, Gilded Age (1880s)1American, mid-nineteenth century1American, mid-nineteenth century (Rococo Revival)1American, nineteenth century1American, nineteenth century - Progressive Era documentary and reform photography1British Aesthetic Movement; American expatriate painting, nineteenth century1British, 19th century, the invention of photography1British, Arts and Crafts movement, late 19th century1British, early nineteenth century1British, mid-nineteenth century1British, nineteenth century1British, Victorian, 18801Dutch, nineteenth century2Early Bronze Age Anatolia (Troy II); excavated in 1873 in the Ottoman Empire, on the site of Hisarlik in what is now Turkey1European Neoclassicism, 1800-18301French Art Nouveau, Ecole de Nancy, c. 19001French, 1837, two years before the daguerreotype process was publicly disclosed1French, 1838, the first year of the publicly announced daguerreotype process1French, 19th century (Palissy revival)1French, Belle Epoque (late 19th century)1French, early nineteenth century1French, mid-nineteenth century1French, nineteenth century1German, nineteenth century1Historicism, 1830-19001Impressionism, 1874-18861Italian Renaissance parade-armor tradition (Milan), overlaid with 19th-century Parisian restoration and completion1Italian Renaissance, with a documented nineteenth-century reconstruction campaign1Japanese, Edo period, 19th century1Japanese, Edo period, Ansei era (1854-1860)1Japanese, Edo period, nineteenth century1Nineteenth century, in late sixteenth-century style1Nineteenth century, in the Hellenistic Greek manner1Nineteenth century, in the manner of the Italian Renaissance1Norwegian Symbolism, 1890s1Orientalizing-period central Italy (if genuine); Italian antiquities market of the 1880s (if not)1Romanticism, 1780-18501Spanish, early nineteenth century2Symbolism, 1880-19101

Period not dated on the record50

Achaemenid Anatolia, Lydian satrapy1Achaemenid Persian, immediately following the Neo-Babylonian period1American, Civil War era1American, Gilded Age1American, Revolutionary War and early republic1Chinese, Ming dynasty (Jiajing-Longqing reigns)1Chinese, Northern Wei dynasty1Chinese, Six Dynasties to Tang (traditional attribution: Eastern Jin)1Chinese, Spring and Autumn period (object date); burial context dated to the Warring States period1Chinese, Tang dynasty1Colonial Spanish South America, viceroyalty of New Granada1Early Islamic1Early Islamic North Africa (disputed attribution; see narrative)1Edo, Court of Benin, Kingdom of Benin1Egyptian, late Ptolemaic1Egyptian, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty1French Art Nouveau, Ecole de Nancy2French Renaissance (Mannerist), Burgundy1Greek, Hellenistic1Greek, high Classical, Sicily1Greek, Late Hellenistic1Hellenistic Greek1Hellenistic, Greek Sicily1Hellenistic-Roman, composite1Indian, Satavahana and later1Irish early medieval (Insular)1Islamic Spain (al-Andalus), Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba1Islamic, Mamluk sultanate (beaker); English or French late medieval (case)1Italian, High Renaissance1Japanese, Heian period2Japanese, Kamakura period1Japanese, late Kamakura period (helmet: Nanbokucho period)1Korean, Goryeo dynasty1Late Antique to Early Medieval, Latin West1Late medieval / early Renaissance, Central Europe1Late Ming dynasty, Chinese maritime Southeast Asia1Late Roman / Late Antique manufacture, deposited in native Iron Age Votadinian Scotland beyond the frontier of Roman Britain1Maya, Early Postclassic1Mesopotamian, Early Dynastic III (Sumerian)1Mesopotamian, Middle Babylonian1New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, Amarna Period, reign of Akhenaten1Nordic, transitional Viking Age to Christian Middle Ages1Ptolemaic Egypt, reign of Ptolemy V Epiphanes1Qing dynasty export ware, made for the American market1Regency London (manufacture) and late Beethoven Vienna (use)1Roman Imperial (medallion); Lombard-Carolingian (the cross into which it is set)1Roman imperial, Pamphylia1Roman, Early Imperial, Julio-Claudian1Russian, Faberge firm, reign of Nicholas II1Tiwanaku (Andean Middle Horizon, Bolivia)1

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